IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968KS051007
  • User Pedon ID: 68KS051007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1826
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35984
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 39.0694427
  • Std. Longitude: -99.2147217
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet E and 3500 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Ellis County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS051—Ellis

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.M. Allen, L.D. Zavesky
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    5

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    58

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    12

    26

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    1A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak thin platy, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14554. 328; many fine grass roots and rhizomes; many fine roots
    1A12—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14555. 329; few fragments of chalk 2 mm to 2 cm in diameter; many fine roots
    1A3—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; hard, friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14556. 330; few chalk fragments 2 mm to 2 cm in diameter; many fine roots
    1B2—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14557. 331; few fine roots
    1C1ca—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; clay loam; structureless massive; very hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14558. 332; porous; few nests of worm casts; lenses of lighter colored coarse loamy sand; common soft spherical carbonate accumulation from 5 to 15 mm in diameter; few fine roots
    1C2—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; silt loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14559. 333; interbedded with strata of gravelly loamy sand; sand particles and pebbles are mostly chalk; coarse strata comprise about 40% of horizon; few fine roots
    2C3—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A14560. 334; bed of fine and medium gravel with 30% of interstices filled with loam; most pebbles are chalk
    2Cr—152 centimeters (59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A14561. weathered chalk, presumed to be Niobrara formation